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they will get on the job imme diately. Therefore 1 invite the chief of police of Chicago to in vestigate our general offices, and I stand ready to lend them all the assistance in my power to un cover this case of supposed train wrecking. I wish to state further that I do not Jbelieve there is .a general officer involved in this Harriman line and Illinois Central strike but what is perfectly willing to throw their office doors open to any ,chief of police in the tities in which they are located, and-the quicker they get on the job, the better.- I have this date, invited the chief of p'olice of Chicago to ex amine our records and offices, and volunteered my' services. Will the Illinois Central do likewise? The insinuation that the members of the craft J represent are in volved in this supposed train wrecking, I am not ready to be lieve, but I do believe hat the Illinois Central engines and cars need repairing and need it badly, and possibly if they had been in first class shape, there would not have been this talk of train wreck ing. ,1 , J.W.Kline. ENGLISH NOBLEMAN, NOT THE ASTUTE VEEDER, WAS "FATHER OF THE BEEF TRUST" Alhert H. Veeder sprung a sur prise at the trial of the packers today. Heretofore it has been believed that the idea of the giant.merger of the packing interests first arose in the nimble mind of Mr. Veeder himself. But 'twas not so. It was an awfully beastlv jolly English aristocrat, don't you koriw, who first conceived the cute idea of a trust so Jarge that it would control tht meat indus try of the world, and so well wa tered that it would amply repay those who organized it. , Veeder is not the "father Of the Beef Trust." That proud place rightfully belonging to Lord Pan mure Gordon, he of tb,e drawling accent, the monocle and the habit of acquiring; American railroads. And. incidentally, the noble man of the bright ideas, feeems to have got lost in the shufflelso far as the packers are concerned. At least, he does not seem'to have got anything out of it. It was during a -discussion re garding some early agreements, that Veeder disclosed the true paternity of the Beef Trust. "Who conceived this idea of a Syndicate, anyway Gustavus Swift?" asked Attorney Pierce Butler. " ( "No," replied Veeder. "None of the packers did. The first movement toward a merger came from an Englishman. He was, as I remember it, Lord Panmure Gordon, and he represented an English syndicate thaf had got hold of some railroad properties connected with the stock yards. "This Englishman was a great ; organizer. He had formed a New " Jersey corporation and taken over aaiaiMaMttaiiiMimiiiillliilllllllllll